A close friend of the former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson and an election adviser for former PM David Cameron, an Australian strategist has been reported to promise "full-time war rooms around the world" to take down Qatar as World Cup host.

Sir Lynton Crosby offered a pitch ‘Project Ball,' which described a number of actions by his lobbying firm CTF Partners aimed to cancel the 2022 Qatar World Cup in return for £5.5 million.